[crossfire] Proposal to fix experience inflation due to random maps

[Lalo Martins]

<quote who="Andreas Kirschbaum">
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      It seems to me that nobody else than me thinks that the random maps give
     
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      (far) too much experience. Nobody even bothered to comment on the
     
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      experience tables in my initial mail. The responses merely said
     
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      something like "please don't reduce the experience" without
     
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      disproving my arguments.
     
     
Nope, I think most people agree, so much so that this thread has grown a
lot :-)  What we said was not "please don't reduce the experience", but
"please don't touch the server code" because that introduces unnecessary
weirdness and inconsistency.  Fix the (random) maps, not the server.

One possible quickfix is to change the random map *LOADER*; so that if you
don't specify how much XP the monsters should give (in the monsterstyle),
then the default is 20% of the normal exp listed on the arch.  This would,
it seems, fix most random maps, and a quick "grep" job will show you what
others need manual intervention:

lalo:~SRC/crossfire/maps-arch> grep exp styles/monsterstyles/ -r
--files-with-matches
styles/monsterstyles/chaos/chaos_1
styles/monsterstyles/chaos/chaos_2
styles/monsterstyles/undead_quest/undead_quest_21
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_10
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_11
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_12
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_13
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_14
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_15
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_16
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_17
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_18
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_19
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_20
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_21
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_1
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_2
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_3
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_4
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_5
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_6
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_7
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_8
styles/monsterstyles/nethack/nethack_9
styles/monsterstyles/sylvan/sylvan_10
styles/monsterstyles/sylvan/sylvan_3
styles/monsterstyles/sylvan/sylvan_4
styles/monsterstyles/sylvan/sylvan_5
styles/monsterstyles/sylvan/sylvan_6
styles/monsterstyles/sylvan/sylvan_7
styles/monsterstyles/sylvan/sylvan_8
styles/monsterstyles/sylvan/sylvan_9
styles/monsterstyles/wyvern/wyvern_1
styles/monsterstyles/wyvern/wyvern_2
styles/monsterstyles/wyvern/wyvern_3
styles/monsterstyles/wyvern/wyvern_4
styles/monsterstyles/wyvern/wyvern_5
styles/monsterstyles/wyvern/wyvern_6
styles/monsterstyles/wyvern/wyvern_7

best,
                                               Lalo Martins
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